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Cost effectiveness analysis of a smoke alarm giveaway program in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

OBJECTIVE To estimate the cost effectiveness of the Lifesavers Residential Fire and Injury Prevention Program (LRFIPP), a smoke alarm giveaway program. SETTING In 1990, the LRFIPP distributed over 10,000 smoke alarms in an area of Oklahoma City at high risk for residential fire injuries. The program also included fire prevention education and battery replacement components. METHODS A cost e...

Giveaway drugs: good intentions, bad design.

Predicting Program Power Consumption

In this paper, we investigate the degree to which power dissipation induced by program execution can be measured by application-level software tools and predicted by a compiler and runtime system. Application control of the power it uses while executing on a processor is critical to battery-powered mobile devices that are an integral to any realization of ubiquitous computing. Our work investig...

Improving Program Correctness with Atomic Exception Handling

Exception handling is a powerful mechanisms for dealing with failures at runtime. It simplifies the development of robust programs by allowing the programmer to implement recovery actions and tolerate non-fatal errors. Yet, exception handling is difficult to get right! The complexity of correct exception handling is a major cause for incorrect exception handling. It is therefore important to re...

Emissivity: A Program for Atomic Emissivity Calculations